Paul

So sooooo happy about Phoenix finally coming to Rock Band I hope more come later too but they're a fantastic start. Very pleased. Can't wait to play them.

The only people losing out here are 360 owners. There's no way the BBC would be allowed to be part of a paid service anyway. As a public funded corp I'm pretty sure it's the licence payees right not to have to pay more to access it on a device that runs the service. REALLY NOT COOL MS! Also a shame as I'm pretty sure a good number of people Would be interested in picking an xbox up to watch shows on their tv easily. Bad form :(

Hey, If you want access to the Zune marketplace etc but live outside of America, try setting your location to the US in the location and regional settings on your pc. I live in the UK and use that little trick, it doesn't seem to have an adverse effect on anything. Hope that helps.

I love the game description in the dashboard "This game rocks! Buy it!" someone at Valve has a good sense of humour.

yeah that'd be awesome. And a smart way of bringing the internet to the device without the need for a browser.

The beta acceptance email states that yes if you do swap your NXE installed hard drive to another system then it will auto install on that too, but because the console ID isn't registered on the beta then you won't be able to use it online until the 19th (when I assume everyone will have a new update to download regardless of the beta) which seems fair enough. everyone on the beta has been told this and knows that they'll be stuck offline. It says nothing about banning people, which would be dumb as plenty of people have 2 systems and move their hard drive or MU to the machine they are playing on.

And as for being able to do semi live things, I would assume your system wouldnt be able to sign in, which would mean no signing up for the netflix stuff at all, or downloads or anything.

Also it now appears that certain ports aren't available to the xbox that allows certain sections, it just has them not show up. I run my xbox live through internet connection sharing from my PC and it went a bit wonky yesterday, Then when I turned my xbox on it came up with a message informing me that some areas aren't there and I was left with just the My Xbox and Friends with no marketplace, spotlight or anything else.

Please be aware, this was coz i messed my connection up. It all works fine. it's just interesting that they can just remove bits now rather than have them there with greyed out buttons like when this happened on the old dash.

The NXE is real slick, avatars are kinda cool too, I think they'll be way better once games start picking them up tho. I'm in the UK so Cant really comment on netflix coz it doesn't even appear in the dash :( Hopefully microsoft will sort a deal out with someone similar here like lovefilm. Here's hoping anyway!

Yeah I hope they do. I'd love one of these. God knows what i'd do with it but it'd still be awesome!

I reckon going to the Marketplace Blade>Account Settings>Download Log would do it, you can redownload anything you have in the past from there

hmmm. kinda reminds me of the sandisk cruzer contour usb sticks, quite a lot infact. http://www.gearlog.com/images/clickclicksansa.jpg

This is conspiracy theories gone mad. Surely gametrailers staff would capture footage of doing similar things on each system and then they would hand the footage to a video editor. on a website that focuses entirely on game videos, they probably have a fair few and a mistake could be made. It's quite clear that's what happened as there isn't any 360 footage. They're not going to put out a video with such an obvious 'giveaway' on intentionally for a video thats entire purpose is to be scrutinised.

I'm guessing most of the people that had a problem (including the guy that posted the video on youtube with the comments throughout) don't own both systems, so is kind of irrelevant. Surely it's only of constructive use to someone to help make a purchase decision if they own both systems, or perhaps if someone is looking to buy a system and deciding which system games tend to look better.

And since when does a video show you whether a game is good fun to play? the demo is out...